TV CREW AT IT LIKE NEWS BUNNIES

TuCked away in the winter edition of Order! Order!, the magazine for ex-MPs, is former Tory MP Jerry hayes. he looks back fondly on the days of l!ve TV, the cable station run by the Mirror newspaper group during the late 1990s that broadcast such edifying content as topless darts, a ‘News Bunny’ mascot and a stripper to deliver financial news. ‘My favourite moment was being interviewed by david Banks, exeditor of The Mirror,’ recalls hayes. ‘in the ad break, the camera operators hopped onto a nearby couch and had sex. And then casually went back to film us.’ Whatever they say, sex clearly doesn’t always sell: the station lost £7 million a year before it was closed.